Social Economy in China and the World

ISBN-13: 9780367598471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 290 str.

Ngai Pun; Ben Hok Ku; Hairong Yan

Opis

This book examines the concept of social economy in China and around the world. It offers to rethink space, economy and community in a trans-border context which moves us beyond both planned and market economies. The chapters address theoretical issues, critical reflections and case studies on the practice of social economy in the context of glo

Spis treści

Preface Part I: Rethinking Economy 1. Social Economics and Economic Anthropology: Challenging Conventional Economic Thinking and Practice 2. Mapping Social and Solidarity Economy: The Local and Translocal Evolution of a Concept 3. Rethinking the Politics of the Mainstream Co-op Movement Part II: Social Economy in the World 4. Workers' Cooperative Movement in Argentina 5. La Alameda: "Guerrilla" Struggles to Make the Argentine Economy Social 6. Democratizing Capital: Social and Solidarity Finance in Quebec 7. The Struggle for Public Power in the United States 8.Marco Semenzin, Workers' Cooperatives in Italy - Between Solidarity and Autocratic Centralism 9. Developing Solidarity Economy in Asia: Innovations in Policy and Practice Part III: Social Economy in Chinese Societies 10. Zhoujiazhuang Village: A Study of the Heritage of the People’s Commune 11. Debating the Rural Cooperative Movement in China, the Past and the Present 12., "Yingxiu Mother" as Agent of Community Development: Case Study of a Practice of Community Economy in Sichuan Post-disaster Rebuilding in China 13. Local Economy Growing at a Steady Pace: The Case of the Peasant Farming Project by The Taiwan Rural Front 14. In the Struggle over Urban Space: The Solidarity Economy Movement and Urban Utopianism in Hong Kong

O autorze

PU Ngai is Professor of the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

KU Hok Bun is Associate Professor and program leader of the Master of Social Work (China) program in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

YAN, Hairong is Associate Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Anita KOO is Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.